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in the '70s, Miller crafted a brand of pure pop that was smart, polished, exciting and irresistible - and that dominated radio in a way that few artists have ever managed. Hit followed hit in what seemed like an endless flow: “The Joker,” "Take the Money and Run," "Rock'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Jet Airliner," "Jungle Love," “Swingtown” and “Abracadabra,” among them. To this day, those songs are instantly recognizable when they crop up online or on the radio - and impossible not to sing along with. Their hooks are the very definition of indelible. Running through Miller's distinctive...

The first large-scale trial to test the long-term effects of a cocoa flavanol supplement to prevent cardiovascular disease offers promising signals that cocoa flavanols could have protective cardiovascular effects. While neither supplement significantly reduced the primary outcome of total cardiovascular events, people randomized to receive the cocoa flavanol supplement had a 27% lower rate of cardiovascular death, a pre-specified secondary endpoint. More than 21,000 participants were randomized to take daily capsules that contained 500 mg cocoa flavanols (donated by Mars Edge), a multivitamin tablet (donated by GSK Consumer Healthcare), neither or both. The study found that cocoa flavanols reduced total...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.There are at least 26 World Economic Forum (“WEF”) Young Global Leaders embedded in institutions, charities, and companies in Australia and New Zealand. Here is a list of their names and the institutions or companies that employ them. Not all members and alumni are listed on the Young Global Leaders Community website. The website states they have more than...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and law enforcement leaders spoke Thursday morning, addressing the spike in gun violence in the city. According to Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristen Snowden, gun violence referrals are up 450%. Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said for 2022, there have been an average of 21.9 shootings per week in Portland. If this trend continues, Chief Lovell says there will be a little over 1500 shootings this year, which is a 14% increase compared to last year. The Focused Intervention Team (FIT) has recovered 19 firearms so far, according to Chief Lovell, and have...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Ironically, our government used Ukraine to distract from the atrocities committed at home with the creation of Covid and the response to it. However, it appears that the focus on Ukraine might very well bring attention right back to the origins of the last catalysing global event they seek to erase from our memory. Regardless of what happens with...

Men with microscopic evidence of prostate cancer spreading to their pelvic lymph nodes (LNs) following the surgical resection of the prostate and pelvic lymph nodes (LN) are at a very high risk of dying from prostate cancer. Pelvic LN radiation therapy (RT) is a potentially curative treatment. However, no randomized clinical trials have been conducted in men with pN1 prostate cancer to evaluate whether survival is prolonged via pelvic LN RT when the post-operative prostate-specific antigen level is undetectable (i.e., adjuvant) versus the current standard of care, which involves waiting until the PSA becomes detectable (i.e., early salvage). Researchers at...

The media is realizing they may not get the war they wanted so they are slowly pivoting back to Covid.Dr. Fauci on Thursday floated the idea of going back to more Covid restrictions such as mandatory masking.

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that would strip Russia of normal trade relations with the U.S., in a move that paves the way for higher tariffs on Russian goods. The bill now goes to the Senate. President Joe Biden has backed efforts to change Russia's trade status as one way to punish President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine. The vote was 424-8, with all eight "no" votes coming from Republicans.

While speaking to reporters Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will be reading a poem about Ukraine written by U2 singer Bono at the annual Friends of Ireland St. Patrick's Day lunch at the U.S Capitol. “This is a joke right?" tweeted former Obama administration official Tommy Vietor, but Pelosi went on to read the poem at the lunch anyway. "I got this message this morning from Bono," Pelosi said at the lunch. "And most of us, whether we're in Ireland, or here, whatever it is, Bono has been a very Irish part of our lives." The San...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Presidential Impersonator Biden does not have the authority either to choose a question or to answer it without a script. Jen Psaki does have both of those authorities. So it is obvious that Psaki is above Biden in the non Biden white house administration. By a concerned readerIt is equally obvious the Joe Biden is not the true President...

Fox News’ Pierre Zakrzewski died Monday doing what he loved to do most: chasing a story. He was one of the best combat cameramen – all-around cameramen, for that matter – in the business. He was an incredible journalist. He knew the stories inside and out. He saved my own life on many occasions. We were embedded in the lead Marine company in the battle of Fallujah in Iraq in 2004. Three Marines were killed, 18 injured, just in our unit. He had my back. He carried 80 pounds of electronic camera gear on his back as we scaled the...

When President Biden was sworn into office, crude oil was selling for forty dollars a barrel or less. The price was reasonably stable, and gasoline and diesel were affordable for most drivers. Biden came into office preaching the benefits of clean energy and stopped the new drilling on and leasing of federal lands to promote it. As a result, the United States went from being an exporter of crude oil and natural gas to an importer, with a large source of imported oil being Russia. As the supply tightened, producers raised the price, and the crude that was selling for...

Foreign nationals traveling to aid Ukraine’s war effort are reportedly being duped into signing indefinite service contracts. The Ukrainian Army has denied such allegations while failing to provide evidence of military contracts stating otherwise.As the nation’s war with Russia broke out, the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine was formed, with people from around the globe welcomed – and encouraged – to join the fight. At the beginning of March, Ukrainian President Zelensky announced to his Telegram channel that 16,000 foreigners (the number is now estimated to be 20,000) had volunteered.

In the medieval era, when a thinker successfully claimed divine revelation, he placed his words beyond dispute. Only the hopelessly benighted or demonically inspired could doubt him. In recent decades, the claim of “science” achieves a similar result. Politicians maintain they “just follow the science” while supportive mass media platforms banish questioners as enemies of science. Pseudoscience never had it so good.

[H/T Robert DeLong]Harley Schlanger and Reiner Fuellmich - What are the reasons why Putin went to war with the Ukraine (rumble.com)

The world’s number two female golfer is sidelined indefinitely with an inexplicable blood clot. Olympic Gold Medal winner Nelly Korda, 23, recently posted about her diagnosis just a week after model Hailey Bieber, 25, was hospitalized for a similar clot. They join a growing list of otherwise young and healthy people who are being diagnosed with complications that are oddly being characterized as “Covid related.” What they should really be saying is that the conditions these young women and others across the globe are experiencing are Covid “vaccine” related. That’s why so many young people, whether they’ve had Covid-19 or...

The Florida bill the media dishonestly call “Don’t Say Gay” has been really making mincemeat out of the Walt Disney corporation of late. Ever since CEO Bob Chapek’s initial decision to have the company refrain from strident activism over the legislation meant to protect young public school kids from LGBTQ propaganda, he’s been hounded by the mob and it’s getting worse. Now his pro-gay employees are planning walkouts. TheVerge.com reported on the latest drama in the House of Mouse, revealing that many queer and queer-friendly employees are set to “stage a week of virtual 15-minutes walkouts beginning this afternoon, culminating...

The deputy chief of Russian’s National Guard was reportedly detained Thursday amid news that Russian President Vladimir Putin is cracking down on disloyalty within his ranks following the invasion of Ukraine. Russian Gen. Roman Gavrilov, of Rosgvardia, the internal military force of the Russian Federation that reports directly to the president of the Russian Federation, was detained by the Russian security and counterintelligence agency, Federal Security Service (FSB), according to Christo Grozev, CEO of the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat. The reason for Gavrilov's detention wasn’t immediately clear. Grozev said one of his sources told him that Gavrilov was detained...

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